Nigeria requires N21 trillion to address the country’s housing deficit, according to Vice President Kashim Shettima.

Shettima who stated this during the ground-breaking of a five-hundred-unit housing estate to be constructed by the Sokoto State government, noted that Nigeria has a housing deficit of twenty-eight million houses, but commended Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State for his efforts at tackling the housing needs of his people.

The project located in the Wamakko Local Government Area of the state will cost the state government the sum of N7.3 billion, and Governor Aliyu says the housing estate will be sold to civil servants when completed on an owner-occupier basis